Student Satisfaction with Field Placement

‘I'll Carry This Experience With Me Throughout My Studies and Future Career’: Practice Tutorials and Students' Views on Social Work in Iraklio, Greece

“…Students also rated as more helpful practice teachers who encouraged them to develop their own style and who fostered open discussion (Urbanowski & Dwyer, 1988). This is Social Work Education 711 consistent with the findings of Fortune et al (1985) that MSW students who reported that their practice teachers enjoyed their role as teachers and encouraged them to share their ideas provided more favourable assessments of their teachers.…”

A National Study of the Field Liaison Role in Social Work Education Programs in the United States and Puerto Rico

“…The remaining four items target concerns that have been previously explicated in the literature (Bennett & Coe, 1998;Fortune et al, 1985;Reisch & Jarman-Rohde, 2000;Rhodes et al, 2000) including a perceived reduction in status to other efforts such as research, whether liaisons have a choice about their liaison role assignment, and their overall satisfaction in the role.…”

“…These authors followed with a survey of field instructors about their perceptions of the liaison role (Faria et al, 1988) and found that the primary responsibilities noted were linkage, mediator, and monitor; rated lowest were consultant, advocate, and teacher. Fortune et al (1985) investigated student satisfaction with their liaison and reported that 'complaints about the liaison were the single largest category of negative factors in the field experience' (p. 103). Bennett & Coe reported the satisfaction of field instructors with their field liaisons and found that the primary predictors of satisfaction were the number of contacts experienced by the field instructors and the availability of the liaison.…”

Challenging Endings: First Year MSW Interns’ Experiences with Forced Termination and Discussion Points for Supervisory Guidance

“…For example, multiple studies have established that students' satisfaction in placement is largely determined by satisfaction with the quality and quantity of supervision (Cimino, Cimino, Nuehring, Raybin, & Wisler-Waldock, 1982;Fortune & Abramson, 1993;Fortune et al, 1985;Knight, 1996). Specifically, students report that field instructors who provided information and helped them apply theoretical knowledge to field practice most enhanced their learning (Choy, Leung, Tam, & Chu, 1998;Fortune, McCarthy, & Abramson, 2001;Knight, 1996Knight, , 2001.…”